{"product_id":"the-girl-with-kaleidoscope-eyes-a-stewart-hoag-mystery-isbn-9780062412843","title":"The Girl with Kaleidoscope Eyes: A Stewart Hoag Mystery","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHARLAN COBEN calls it \"One of my all-time favorite series!\u003c\/strong\u003e ...David Handler is so good at writing one smart, funny page-turner after another that he makes it look easy.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFans of JANET EVANOVICH and CARL HIAASEN, get ready. \u003c\/strong\u003eIf you haven't yet discovered wisecracking sleuth \u003cstrong\u003eStewart \"Hoagy\" Hoag \u003c\/strong\u003eand his faithful basset hound Lulu, you're in for a sharp, hilarious treat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnce upon a time, Hoagy had it all: a hugely successful debut novel, a gorgeous celebrity wife, the glamorous world of New York City at his feet. These days, he scrapes by as a celebrity ghostwriter. A celebrity ghostwriter who finds himself investigating murders more often than he'd like.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd once upon a time, Richard Aintree was the most famous writer in America -- high school students across the country read his one and only novel, a modern classic on par with \u003cem\u003eThe Catcher in the Rye\u003c\/em\u003e. But after his wife's death, Richard went into mourning... and then into hiding. No one has heard from him in twenty years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUntil now. Richard Aintree — or someone \u003cem\u003epretending\u003c\/em\u003e to be Richard Aintree — has at last reached out to his two estranged daughters. Monette is a lifestyle queen à la Martha Stewart whose empire is crumbling; and once upon a time, Reggie was the love of Hoagy's life. Both sisters have received mysterious typewritten letters from their father. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHoagy is already on the case, having been hired to ghostwrite a tell-all book about the troubled Aintree family. But no sooner does he set up shop in the pool house of Monette's Los Angeles mansion than murder strikes. With Lulu at his side — or more often cowering in his shadow — it's up to Hoagy to unravel the mystery, catch the killer, and pour himself that perfect single-malt Scotch... before it's too late.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFans of Janet Evanovich and Carl Hiaasen, get ready. 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Richard Aintree—or someone \u003cem\u003epretending\u003c\/em\u003e to be Richard Aintree—has at last reached out to his two estranged daughters. Monette is a lifestyle queen à la Martha Stewart whose empire is crumbling; Reggie, once upon a time, was the love of Hoagy’s life. Both sisters have received mysterious typewritten letters from their father.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHoagy is already on the case, having been hired to ghostwrite a tell-all book about the troubled Aintree family. But no sooner does he set up shop in the pool house of Monette’s Los Angeles mansion than murder strikes. 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